Best Drama movies of 2005

Actors : Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Sanjay Dutt, Dia Mirza,
Directors : Pradeep Sarkar,

The lifelong romance between Lolita (Balan) and Shekar (Khan) is upset by the arrival of another man.

Actors : Maria Kraakman, Frank Vercruyssen, Johanna ter Steege, Fedja van Huêt,
Directors : Nanouk Leopold,

Anna is a is a quiet, slightly timid woman of thirty. She lives with her family in the suburbs of a major city... See full synopsis »

Actors : Pierfrancesco Favino, Anna Mouglalis, Kim Rossi Stuart, Claudio Santamaria,
Directors : Michele Placido,

Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.

Actors : Zoe Saldana, Billy Dee Williams, Daniel Bess, Gabrielle Union,
Directors : Jordan Walker-Pearlman,

A painter living in exile returns home where his family endured generations of racial violence. There he begins to fantasize the people around him as a series of portraits in order to bury the pain and find something beautiful to feel.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Peter Coyote, Kharl Anton Leigh, Juan Carlos Pardo Pardo,
Directors : Baltasar Kormákur,

A husband and wife tangle with an investigator over her dead brother's million-dollar insurance policy.

Actors : Nestor Serrano, Elizabeth Peña, John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón,
Directors : Renée Chabria,

A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.

Actors : Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur, Geordy Monfils, José Garcia,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Bernard Campan, Monica Bellucci, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

In Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of ...

Actors : Saif Ali Khan, Javed Jaffrey, Arshad Warsi, Preity Zinta,
Directors : Siddharth Anand,

A quirky take on life and relationships as it looks at a fairy tale with a bit of a squint and an endearing look at what being in love really means.

Actors : Ha-kyun Shin, Hye-jeong Kang, Jae-yeong Jeong, Ha-ryong Lim,
Directors : Kwang-Hyun Park,

Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.

Actors : Tara Sharma, Atul Kulkarni, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sandhya Mridul,
Directors : Madhur Bhandarkar,

A look at Mumbai's socialite party circle world through the eyes of a Page 3 journalist.

Actors : Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe, Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Radu Mihaileanu,

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.

Actors : Amy Redford, Rosario Dawson, Nathan Crooker, Brett DelBuono,
Directors : Stephen Marshall,

In this politically charged homage to Medium Cool, a photographer covers the urban guerrilla war on New York streets during the RNC.

Actors : Nana Patekar, Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh,
Directors : Rohan Sippy,

A conman Roy, gets dumped by his girl-friend. Then he finds out he has a fatal disease. On the verge of death, he resolves to do some good, by helping his apprentice Dittu hoodwink the mobster who hurt his (Dittu's) family.

Actors : America Ferrera, Elizabeth Peña, Eliana Alexander, Lucy Gallardo,
Directors : Georgina Garcia Riedel,

Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.

Actors : Erkan Can, Mehmet Günsür, Altan Erkekli, Özgü Namal,

Istanbul Tales is a 2005 Turkish drama film which tells five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairy tales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty ...

Actors : Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Dylan McDermott, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Nitin Ganatra,
Directors : Paul Mayeda Berges,

In India, Tilo has the ability of foreseeing the future. When their parents are killed by bandits, she is kidnapped but escapes and is raised by the First Mother in a sort of traditional ...

Actors : Mikko Leppilampi, Jasper Pääkkönen, Petteri Summanen, Pamela Tola,
Directors : Aku Louhimies,

When a schoolteacher is sacked he projects his bad mood at his troubled teen son. He in turn buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This causes a chain-reaction that ...

Actors : Fabrizia Sacchi, Letizia Ciampa, Primo Reggiani, María Valverde,
Directors : Luca Guadagnino,

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Actors : John Savage, Matt Farnsworth, Rosanna Arquette, Diane Foster,
Directors : Matt Farnsworth,

A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.